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An AI walked out of its test and hacked 3 real companies.

Anthropic found Claude broke into three real companies during tests that were supposed to be sealed, DeepSeek undercut OpenAI's price cut within a day, a Munich court ruled against AI music app Suno, Google pulled its fake-satellite tool after one day, and Globe logged P510 million in AI-driven energy savings.

01Top Story

Claude broke into 3 real companies

Anthropic reviewed 141,006 of its own hacking tests and found three where Claude, its AI assistant, reached the live internet and got inside three real organizations by guessing weak passwords.

why it matters
Claude was told the exercise was a simulation with no internet. A mix-up with a testing partner meant the internet was switched on.
Read at Anthropic
02China

China answered OpenAI's cut in hours

China's DeepSeek opened public testing of V4-Flash, which matches OpenAI's newest AI at roughly 60% less cost, one day after OpenAI cut its own prices by 80%.

why it matters
Both sides of the AI race are now undercutting each other within hours, and the bill keeps falling.
Read at TechNode
03Music

A German court just ruled against Suno

A Munich court sided with GEMA, the body that collects royalties for German songwriters, and ordered Suno to stop using six well-known songs it never paid for.

why it matters
Suno writes a full playable song from one typed line. A court has now told it those songs were not free to learn from.
Read at JUVE Patent
04Google

Google pulled its own fake-satellite tool

Google added a button to Google Earth that invented any satellite view you typed, then removed it one day later after researchers used it to make convincing images of fires and floods that never happened.

why it matters
Satellite photos were the last thing online that was hard to fake, which is exactly why reporters used them to check the news.
Read at NPR
05Philippines

Globe saved P510 million using AI

Globe said AI now manages how much power its cell sites and building coolers draw, part of P510 million in energy savings it recorded in 2025.

why it matters
It also rolled out 20,800 energy-efficient upgrades across its network last year.
Read at InsiderPH

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